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E. W. SECKLEMAN.

IRONING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9. 19:9.

1,324,931 Patented D... 16,1919.

ln eniarx EBWIN W. SECKLEMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IRONING-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 16, 1919.

Application filed June 9, 1919. Serial No. 302,681.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERWIN V. SEGKLE- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, ofv

which the following, when taken in connection with the drawing accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and complete specification.

This invention relates to ironing boards which are designed and adapted to be attached to kitchen and other tables, to enable the person using the same to iron skirts and like articles thereon with less difficulty than on an ordinary table.

Among the objects of this invention are to obtain an ironing board of the character named which may be adjusted to present a substantially level, (or horizontal) surface when attached to tables of different heights;

'which may be attached to tables of different thickness and present a level surface; which will grasp, or hold to, a table firmly, without scarring or marring the same; and which will present a safe and convenient resting place for a hot fiat iron.

Additional objects are to obtain an ironing board which is simple in construction; easily attached and detached from an ordinary table or shelf; and easily adjusted.

A construction embodying this invention is illustrated in the drawing referred to, in which,

Figure l, is a top plan view of the ironing board and a portion of the top of a table to which it is attached.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the board illustrated in Fig. 1, and of the table to which it is attached;

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of one of the members of the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2; and

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one end of the ironing board, detached from the table which is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, with the several elements thereof in a folded condition.

A reference letter applied to designate a given part indicates said part throughout the several figures of the drawingg wherevcr the same appears.

A represents a portion of the top of an ordinary kitchen table; and B a leg thereof. C represents the board of the ironing table on the surface of which articles are ironed.

The ordinary cloth covering is laid on this board, but of course forms no part of the invention, and is not illustrated. D is a jaw which is represented as rigidly secured to the underside of board 0, by screws 03, d. E represents an additional jaw, which is adapted to co-act with jaw D, to attach the board to table A; and is pivotally attached to said jaw D by bolt or pin 6. F represents a brace or strut to which the jaw E is adjustably attached, by means of pin f, threaded bolt G and nut H. Bolt G is represented as pivotally attached to brace or strut F, by pin or bolt 9. Nut H is represented as having groove h thereto, around the body part thereof, and with the knurled peripheral part 72, by means of which it may be easily turned on said bolt F.

The jaws D and E are represented of sheet metal, with a body part al and c respectively, and with the upturned edges (Z 6 And the jaw E is provided with the aperture Ii, of two diameters, the part I thereof, (of larger diameter) being slightly larger than the diameter of annular portion H of nut H, and the part '11 thereof of substantially the same size as the diameter of the bottom of groove h in said nut. I

To set up the ironing board the nut H is partially entered in aperture It and brace or strut F is turned on pin f so that said nut H may be moved, (bolt Gturning on pin or pivot until said nut is in the smaller portion (i) of said aperture that is with the edges of said smaller portion in groove 72..

The jaws D, E, are then placed on the table and as board 0 is lowered toward a horizontal position said jaws will automatically grasp the top A, of the table. The nut H is then turned on bolt G until said board 0 is in a substantially horizontal position. By holding the end of the table G up, so that said table issubstantially horizontal, the adjustment of said nut H is more easily made.

The up-turned edges of that portion of jaw E which are above the table, and in a substantially horizontal plane, form a rest on which a fiat iron may be placed, and X, Fig. 2 represents a flat iron resting on said up-turned edges.

I claim:

1. In an ironing board, a table, a jaw rigidly secured to said table, and an additional jaw pivotally attached to said first named jaw, said additional jaw comprising a body part adapted to rest on a table and up-turned edges adapted to form a fiat iron rest, in combination with a diagonally extending member, and adjustable means to attach said additional aw to said member.

2. In an ironing board, a table, a aw rigidly secured to said table, and an additional jaw pivotally attached to said first named jaw, in combination with a diagonally eX- tending member, a threaded bolt, a nut means to pivotally attach said additional jaw and said bolt respectively to said last named member, and said j aw provided with a key hole slot, the larger end thereof admitting said nut thereinto, and said nut provided with an annular groove, fitting in the other end thereof.

ERWIN W. SEGKLEMAN. In the presence 0:E

CHARLES TURNER BROWN, GERTRUDE SECKELMAN. 

